He's not happy about the latest lockdown extension
He said: ‘Were there to be a delay, were that to be what the Prime Minister announces, we will see what he says and he will make a judgment if he were to delay it on how long by.
‘If we are going at a run rate of about 250,000 to 300,000 second jabs being done each day, a month gives you roughly that 10 million, which closes the gap… 10 million you have got to do to get from 29 million to 40 million, so that all 40 million have had their second jabs.’ When the prime minister announced his roadmap out of lockdown, he insisted certain tests needed to me met to progress to the next stage – with one of these including not seeing the threat level changed by new variants of COVID-19.
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